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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Does the SQL standard actually define LATERAL anywhere?
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In response to Does the SQL standard actually define LATERAL anywhere?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 00:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> this is a spec-defined syntax so surely the SQL standard ought to tell
> us what to do.  But I'm darned if I see anything in the standard that
> defines the actual *behavior* of a LATERAL query.

I have it another read and couldn't find anything either.  As written,
LATERAL is effectively a noise word, AFAICT.

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